Operating and Hardware systems refresh

In Todays fast moving and ever changing world, its seems like there is always a new “version” or update to a phone or an “app”.Welcome to Technology.

The same holds true for your IT environment. Here is where the dilemma lies.

How do you justify a Server refresh, when you just refreshed a couple of years prior?

How do you gain the trust of your decision makers when the perception may be an update is only for internal purposes to “have the latest and greatest?

How do you build your business case? Here are some factors that we need to keep in mind:

Operational cost reductions

Maintenance cost avoidance

Service reliability

Better server consolidation ratios

Application licensing

Breaking the vicious cycle

What are some industry standard approaches?

The first and obvious reason to refresh server hardware is to consolidate multiple server applications onto fewer (and generally, newer) machines using virtualization. Virtualize-and-consolidate doesn’t spell the end of hardware refresh, of course. But it does change the when and why of refresh triggers. IT may be able to add more capacity by replacing CPUs, adding memory, or sticking in additional blade or rack-mount servers. This is where Tier 4 Technologies Capacity Planning strategies come into play. A well-designed IT hardware refresh policy delivers a wide range of operational and financial benefits.

But capturing these benefits requires collaboration across the organization. The involvement of stakeholders from the engineering, operations, and application development groups in IT, and from Finance and key business users are needed if these benefits are to be fully realized.

Tier4Tech Expert Guidance will delivery the best strategy for your Refresh Strategy.